Life’s too short to not have a little fun. All one can say is, “Doh!”
Sunday Inspiration: Russian Orthodox Monks
It’s Sunday. Try to relax a little.
Monday Motivation: Concentration
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.” ~Lee Iacocca
Stick Time: Clever Concert Presentation
The addition of sound effect and movement is a good way to enliven a choral concert. In our current media-driven world where we are all bombarded by non-stop video images (TV screens in the grocery store!? Please.), people seem a little uneasy when they are challenged to contemplate music without a visual component. I hold […]
Stick Time: Challenging Tuning
Tuning. It's a minute-by-minute challenge, isn't it? Some selections sound as though they shouild be easy to sing in tune, but they reveal themselve to be quite difficult. Then there are works that are almost relentless in the demands on the singers. Here we listen to an example of a work that requires tremendous tuning […]
WCG Update: Cincinnati Pops to Headline Opening and Closing Ceremonies
CINCINNATI (OH) – This was Erich Kunzel’s vision when he led the charge to bring the 2012 World Choir Games to Cincinnati USA. The beloved Cincinnati Pops founder and icon, who died Sept. 1, 2009, dreamed of watching the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in the Opening Ceremony of the 7th World Choir Games at U.S. Bank […]